Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Univ. of Montana Sees Record Number of International Students

Despite
a drop in overall enrollment last year, the school saw a record number of
international students, at 832, according to The Independent Record, a Helena, Mont.
newspaper. This week, the Record featured the school in an in-depth profile
about the rapid growth of its international student population, which has
nearly doubled in the last five years.

Even
amid budget cuts, the school is also adding another recruiter to its Office of
International Programs, the Record reported.

Still,
the school isn’t the only one seeing a rise in its international student
population.

"I
think it just comes with the general growth of the numbers of international
students in the U.S.," Paulo Zagalo-Melo,
director of the school’s Office of International Programs, told the Record. "We
are only now, during this school year, really changing our recruitment
strategies and implementing new strategies, and hopefully getting some new
resources for international recruitment."